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“Tricks are for kids”… it’s a catchy little slogan that has been used for years by an animated rabbit on a cereal commercial. Of course the rabbit is referring to the brand of cereal. Tonight, I want to focus on the real word “trick,” It means to deceive or outwit someone by being cunning or skillful. As an adjective…a ”trick” is “intended or used to deceive or mystify, or to create an illusion. I spent years “tricking” those around me that I was happy, that I was healthy, that it was all good. I created the “illusion” that I was living the Good Life…I had the big house, wife, kids, own my own business, fancy cars, belonged to a church, etc. People would come up to me all the time and say how “blessed I was,” etc. Yes I was blessed, but the truth is that I I was living the Good LIE. You hear say the Good Lie quite often if you listen or read frequently to Quiet Moments. It is the enticing lie that the world offers us if we want to be happy and fulfilled. Yet it leads really to emptiness and death…so it isn’t the Good Life, it is the Good Lie. For me, I was living out of harmony with who God created me to be and what he called me to do. As a result of that disharmony on the inside, I began to drink way too much, I spent way too much time out of the house and away from my family on “business.” I drifted and drifted farther and farther away until I was living a completely hedonistic life, and didn’t even recognize the man in the mirror. I was hurting those that I loved the most and risking everything…I didn’t want to live anymore. Yet I kept creating the “illusion” that everything was fine, we put fake smiles on our faces and went to church…but was dying on the inside. The Bible says in Hebrews 10:22 says: “let us draw near to God with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water.” A sincere heart is the opposite of a heart of tricks, right? Friends, tonight the first step to exchanging the Good Lie the world offers for the Good Life in Jesus Christ is to accept the sacrifice God made for you and me on that cross…when we accept that gift in faith with a sincere heart he will be faithful to cleanse us, and take that guilt stained conscience and wash it clean! Thanks for letting me share. Randy Young